Business Environment - Topic A

Compliance at JL Consulting is ensured through the PMO office. What kind of PMO is JL Consulting least likely to have?

• Directive

• Primary

• Supportive

• Controlling

Joanna is the PM for Project ICS, while Marcey is the FSL PM. Both projects have similar objectives that benefit the Development department. Portion of Joanna’s project experiences delays harming resource availability for Marcey’s. Who is responsible?

• The program manager is responsible because related projects are impacted.

• The portfolio manager is responsible because related programs are impacted.

• Joanna is responsible because her project is causing a negative impact.

• Marcey is responsible because she needs to adapt her project to the impact.

As the project manager for a long-term project, you’ve been observing your project team. You notice they’re “doing agile” vs. “being agile.” Which of the following statements best describes this scenario?

• The team is participating in stand-up meetings but not iterations.

• The team has an agile mindset, but they are not embracing agile principles.

• The team is following agile practices but does not have an agile mindset.

• The team is following tailoring principles.

Which of the following statements about agile projects is false?

• Agile projects welcome changes

• Agile projects depend on lots of stakeholder engagement

• Agile projects have a very strict change management process

• Agile projects prefer collocation

Nancy is a PM for the NHG Corporation. She identifies stakeholders. Nancy and the project team meets with the positive but not the negative ones. Mike, another PMO request to meet with the negative stakeholder ASAP. What type of PMO Mike is?

• Controlling

• Consultative

• Directive

• Supportive

AJ is leading a project that’s being described as revolutionizing the mobile health tracking industry. In order to be a successful PM in an agile environment, he must do all of the following, except:

• Understand agile principles

• Sell the idea of agile

• Communicate daily with all project stakeholders

• Embrace the agile mindset

While discussing the benefits of agile with three of the organization’s key stakeholders what would be seeing as the main benefit for conducting the project using agile methodology versus traditional methodology?

• Agile project requires funding up front

• Traditional delivers values all up front

• Agile delivers value incrementally

• Traditional delivers value at the beginning

An organization has informed the project manager that the new product development project needs to be pushed out to the customers within eight months. The PM alerts the sponsor that the estimated time is 36 months for completion. What should the PM do?

• Change the project to a hybrid method and ensure the team understand the deadline

• Hire additional resources and conduct fast tracking and crashing to complete it sooner

• Change the project to agile methods and utilize a minimum viable product approach

• Change the project to an agile method ensure the product backlog does not change

What is the difference between a traditional project scope and an agile project scope?

• Only a traditional project scope follows a strict change management process

• Traditional and agile project scopes both follow a strict change management process

• Traditional and agile project scopes both allow for adding features at any point

• Only an agile project scope follows a strict change management process

Which one of the following statements best defines the difference between a program and portfolios in regard to scope?

• Programs have larger scopes than projects. Portfolios don't have scopes because they are a financial investment.

• Programs do not have scopes because they are made up of projects. Portfolios have an organizational scope.

• Programs and portfolios can share the same scope because portfolio may have two or more programs.

• Programs have larger scopes than projects. Portfolios have an organizational scope.